Posted on 06/10/2023 9:52:36 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Fish soup. Salmon tartare with mango salsa. Sea bream a la plancha.
The human genus has been eating fish since the dawn of time. Almost 2 million years ago, hominins in Kenya deboned a catfish. Around 800,000 years ago, hominins in Israel grilled a giant carp. Evidence of shellfish consumption also abounds, and it’s even been proposed that coastal Neanderthals dived for clams.
It is therefore unsurprising that freshwater fish were critical resources for inland prehistoric peoples in North America, not to mention modern ones. It is surprising that archaeologists investigating their predecessors – the earliest people in Beringia (the land bridge between Asia and North America) around 15,000 to 14,000 years ago – found no evidence of fish consumption until 13,000 years ago.
For the first thousand years or so, first Beringians confined hunting to bison and elk and other large animals, the reports indicate.
Could the absence of fish be due to differential preservation: big animal bones preserved; frail fishbones not? Maybe it was an artifact of the study method? Did they really not eat fish for a thousand years or more – and if so, why did they then change habit? Maybe they just didn’t like fish?
Fish first appears in eastern Beringian human contexts 12,900 years ago, at a site called Mead, and 11,800 years ago at a site called Upward Sun River, they write.
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On the other hand, Tarter Sauce wasn't available. Then there's the butter and lemon thing...
It’s called a weir...
IIRC, England made two mandatory fish days a week to support the fishing industry.
High Mercury levels - no doubt!
Are they saying there were NO Catholics among them? What about Fish Fridays? I just can’t believe it.
First fish they ate was poisonous so they thought all the fish were poisonous.
Also fresh water fish tend not to swim in schools so it would be more of a challange to catch them.
Not as sucessfully but it can be done.
And noodling needs no equipment to do.
Obviously no good Catholics in Alaska at the time.
Their main problem was that there were no local offices where they could get a fishing license...
Very easily explained - freshwater fishing isn’t very efficient, particularly if they lacked nets, sieves or fishing lines and hooks - and at low population levels land game would have been very abundant. Hunting beat fishing on a calorie per hour basis, to say nothing of the incremental yield of hide and bone. Once population levels led to nearby areas being hunted out, fishing would start to be worth the effort, including development and use of fishing technology.
Salmon and eels travel inland from the ocean. No need for fish ladders then.
Scavengers and, if they had dogs, would have consumed and carried off any fish bits that were discarded. If they did fish during runs they probably cleaned them on the spot , maybe right into the water, and the remains would wash away.
What fish they took back to camp would be gutted and deboned so there wouldn’t be much evidance even if they were big fishermen.
Hi.
This sounds fishy.
5.56mm
More likely lack of spinning reals and spinner baits.....
They had the lasagna.
Because they got tired of going through this every time to get fish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaRRMbPwdwc
No beer? There’s no sense going fishing if you don’t have any beer to drink.
Yeah, I’m sure it’ll never be taught in school.
Good catch.
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